| National Review Online | - |
The Bloomberg report makes it clear that Obama's
order opens the way for further litigation and substantial delays on
Keystone, whether the federal government officially blocks construction
or not.
Showing posts with label Averting Ecocide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Averting Ecocide. Show all posts
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
Halve meat consumption, scientists urge rich world.
Halve meat consumption, scientists urge rich world.
People in the rich world should become
"demitarians" – eating half as much meat as usual, while stopping short
of giving it up – in order to avoid severe environmental damage,
scientists have urged, in the clearest picture yet of how farming
practices are destroying the natural world.
The Guardian
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Renewables Deploy Fast
Posted: 14 Feb 2013 12:00 AM PST
Here’s another great post from the always thoughtful Karl-Friedrich Lenz, reposted from his site, Lenz Blog (image added):
Wind turbines in Spain via Shutterstock
These technologies scale faster than any other. No form of traditional generation — coal, gas, or nuclear — scales nearly as fast as efficiency, solar, and wind. Gigawatts of solar and wind can be added in months — not the years to decades required for traditional power plants. Cloudy Germany installed three gigawatts of solar in the month of December 2011 alone. That is 1.6 times more than was installed in the entire U.S. Germany’s scale-up has cut its solar-system costs to half of ours.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Construction underway on Boulder community solar garden. Denver Post
| Denver Post | - |
Construction on the first community solar garden in Xcel Energy's Colorado service area began Friday at the $1.5 million Boulder Cowdery Meadows Solar Array. The 500-megawatts solar farm will sell shares in the solar garden to Xcel residential and ...
Friday, February 8, 2013
***** nd 'To Save Earth, Pr. Obama should APPROVE Keystone - Massive Political Capital gained - Mid term un-Economics will Kill Keystone. OBVIOUSLY. And the Furry of the Lip-service Libs will Unify the Does-Stuff Committed Ctr w/ Pr. Obama, and disarm the Raving Right.' Loving
***** nd 'To Save Earth, Pr. Obama should APPROVE Keystone - Massive Political Capital gained - Mid term un-Economics will Kill Keystone. OBVIOUSLY. And the Furry of the Lip-service Libs will Unify the Does-Stuff Committed Ctr w/ Pr. Obama, and disarm the Raving Right.' Loving
Thursday, February 7, 2013
***** Report outlines climate change options for Obama administration. MiamiHerald.com
| MiamiHerald.com | - |
...
Resources Institute, a think tank that focuses on the environment and
socioeconomic development, looks at the technical and legal authority
President Barack Obama could use to build on the pledge in his inaugural
address to address climate change.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
New Mexico Utility Agrees To Purchase Solar Power At A Lower Price Than Coal ThinkProgress
| ThinkProgress | - |
In fact, solar
technology has been advancing so rapidly that analysts have had trouble
keeping their models up to date. When the Electric Reliability Council
of Texas revised the circa-2006 assumptions about the state of
technological development in ...
***** THINK OF IT: Climate action could halve energy firms' worth - bank
| The Daily Climate | - |
The
San Ardo oil field in Monterey County, Calif. A study from a bank warns
the investment sector that oil companies face huge loses if the world
cuts carbon emissions enough to limit global warming. Photo by Steve Wilson/flickr. ... Added Andrew Simms ...
Friday, January 25, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
U.S. Should Act Unilaterally on Climate Change Bloomberg
| Bloomberg | - |
Those who make the Sophisticated Objection acknowledge that climate change is a serious problem, and that the world's nations should be doing something about it.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Climate Change Given Prominence in Obama's Address. New York Times
| New York Times | - |
WASHINGTON - President Obama
made addressing climate change the most prominent policy vow of his
second Inaugural Address on Monday, setting in motion what Democrats say
will be a deliberately paced but aggressive campaign built around the ...
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